Verified change
Salesforce announced the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness on September 10, 2026:
- six composable capabilities: context, agency, action, governance, security, and models;
- an AI Control Plane for agent/capability discovery and registration, identity and policy, lifecycle, evaluation, behavior/outcome observability, and cost control across Salesforce and third-party AI;
- headless access through MCP, APIs, Skills, and Plugins;
- many foundation technologies available today, with the unified experience beginning rollout in early FY28;
- final packaging, pricing, and detailed availability still pending.
Primary source: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/enterprise-ai-harness/
Strategic interpretation
This is material to Agent Factory because Salesforce is productizing much of the generic enterprise control-plane surface. Building an undifferentiated registry, identity, policy, evaluator, or cost dashboard would increasingly compete with a platform bundle.
It may also become a distribution channel. EventRelay can remain the provider-neutral execution/evidence spine while Salesforce supplies a customer-facing enterprise surface. Defensible boundaries should remain:
- durable, append-only execution receipts and replay;
- provenance-bound standing authorization;
- deterministic claimed-versus-observed outcome verification;
- cross-provider and cross-system execution;
- UVAI/Video Pack evidence normalization;
- policy enforcement independent of any model- or vendor-writable environment.
These are interpretations, not Salesforce claims.
Bounded action
Do not implement against announcement prose. Create a compatibility and partner-readiness map when official interfaces are published.
Acceptance criteria:
- Capture official API/schema documentation for Control Plane registration, identity/policy, lifecycle, evaluation, observability, cost, MCP, Skills, and Plugins.
- Map each interface to Agent Factory/EventRelay as
BUILD, BUY, ADAPT, or DIFFERENTIATE.
- Define a read-only proof of concept: register one EventRelay agent/capability and ingest one immutable execution receipt without granting Salesforce merge/deploy authority.
- Specify identity, tenant isolation, approval provenance, receipt export, revocation, rate/cost ceilings, and failure semantics.
- Draft a partner/sales brief positioning EventRelay as the evidence and cross-provider execution layer for Salesforce-controlled agents.
- Require published availability and pricing before any paid test or implementation commitment.
Decision and boundary
WATCH + PARTNER
No outreach, paid use, deployment, production mutation, or public positioning claim is authorized by this issue.
Verified change
Salesforce announced the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness on September 10, 2026:
Primary source: https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/enterprise-ai-harness/
Strategic interpretation
This is material to Agent Factory because Salesforce is productizing much of the generic enterprise control-plane surface. Building an undifferentiated registry, identity, policy, evaluator, or cost dashboard would increasingly compete with a platform bundle.
It may also become a distribution channel. EventRelay can remain the provider-neutral execution/evidence spine while Salesforce supplies a customer-facing enterprise surface. Defensible boundaries should remain:
These are interpretations, not Salesforce claims.
Bounded action
Do not implement against announcement prose. Create a compatibility and partner-readiness map when official interfaces are published.
Acceptance criteria:
BUILD,BUY,ADAPT, orDIFFERENTIATE.Decision and boundary
WATCH + PARTNER
No outreach, paid use, deployment, production mutation, or public positioning claim is authorized by this issue.